BlockBowers City, Texas
6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Lefors census division. The Survey maps it on the Bowers City quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 6 printed sheetsMatched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.
- 1954 USGS Amarillo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Amarillo quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Bowers City quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Shamrock quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
27 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Bowers City between 2005 and 2018, burning about 19,434 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Smoking | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 July 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 50 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 3 July 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 2 July 2006 | Smoking | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 7 June 2006 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 7 June 2006 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 24 May 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 2 May 2006 | Debris and open burning | 245 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 13 May 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2014072 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bowers City in 2 storm reports in 2007: 2 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2007 | Hail | Bowers City | - | Reported seven miles southeast of Kingsmill. |
| August 2007 | Hail | Bowers City | - | no account filed |
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lefors | 6.0 miles | 5 | |
| Wesco | 8.2 miles | 5 | |
| Pampa | 8.4 miles | 5 | |
| Kingsmill Camp | 8.6 miles | 6 | |
| Kingsmill | 8.9 miles | 6 | |
| Mesilla Park | 10.3 miles | 5 | |
| Heaton | 10.6 miles | 5 | |
| Hoover | 12.6 miles | 5 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikidata item Q122552292 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1352733. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.